For 2015, Julian Cook and I will create a Buddha-A-Day using art and words. I’m going to try to remember to reblog my contributions, but you should check out the whole blog here: http://www.buddhaaday.wordpress.com

My new Guitars and Geeks column is up, “Fangirling The Bad Plus.” You can find it here.

In this week’s column, I discuss fandom, and fangirldom in particular, in music (especially jazz). So go check it out. This is the one I was struggling over, and I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out.

I’m trying to write about seeing The Bad Plus last night, and fangirling, and jazz, and I have turned my brain to mush. I have writing mush brain. I’ve spent too long trying to get the sentence just right, the paragraph just right, the ideas just right, and now the words are becoming less like lightning, and more like lightning bugs.

I think writer’s mush is far more insidious than writer’s block. I’m more daunted by a page full of crap than a blank page. I know that many people have the opposite problem. But an empty bowl vs. a big bowl of crap? I’ll take the empty bowl every time.

The only thing to do with writer’s mush is walk away–the opposite, really, of writers’ block. I must relinquish this idea for today, but it’s sooo hard to put it down.

Hence this post. Something different. Something new. Something to use to let go.